# Red Devils

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- Book: [Red Devils](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-urban/red-devils) ([Red Devils.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-urban/red-devils.md))
- Authors: [Mark Urban](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-urban)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-523-5
- Published: 2022-10-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In this gripping, authorised account, bestselling historian Mark Urban tells the story of the wartime creation and development of Britain's elite airborne infantry - who ranged from circus performers to solicitors, policemen to gravediggers, Christians and Jews to communists. Through the fates of six men - including recently widowed Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, who had to leave his little boy at home to head to the front, and Mike Lewis, whose photographs became iconic images of war - Urban vividly shows what it took to succeed in this new regiment. All six men would shed blood for their country in daring actions at D-Day, Arnhem and across the Second World War; two would not survive, and one would face disgrace. Based on deep archival research, British and German sources and new material from the men's families, Urban's unvarnished history is a compelling and moving depiction of the highs and lows of battle.